CRITICISM AND JOURNALISM AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY ON THE WORK OF RUSSIAN WOMEN WRITERS

Perestroika in the Soviet Union exposed numerous problems which had ostensibly not existed before. One of these topical issues was the ‘woman question’ — although to this day Russian society has not fully acknowledged that this should be regarded as one of the most vital contemporary problems. Whereas in the West women’s issues have never left the pages of the press, and a huge amount of research has been devoted to this subject, in Russia people were told that the woman question had been solved, and any consideration of it through the prism of Russian culture provoked nothing but bewilderment. Russian